A free, privacy-first online GPS metadata editor — built so anyone can add, edit, or remove geotags from their photos without uploading a single image to a server.
Geo Tags Editor exists to make photo geotagging simple, fast, and genuinely private. Most online tools that touch your images upload them to a remote server for processing — which means a stranger's machine briefly holds your photo, your location, and your camera details. We believe that's the wrong default for something as personal as a photograph. Our mission is to prove that a powerful, professional-grade GPS metadata editor can run entirely inside your browser, with zero compromises on either privacy or capability.
Every feature we ship — adding GPS, editing existing geotags, batch processing, the interactive map picker, the EXIF viewer, and one-click geotag removal — is designed around that principle. Your photos never leave your device, and we never see them.
Our flagship product is the Geo Tag Editor, a browser-based tool that reads, writes, and strips the GPS portion of EXIF metadata in JPEG images. Around it we've built a focused suite of related tools and educational resources:
None of these tools require an account, an email address, or a payment. They are free to use, free of advertising on the editor surface itself, and free of the dark patterns that have become common across the wider web.
The original prototype came out of a frustration anyone who has tried to manage photo metadata will recognize. The professional desktop options (ExifTool, Adobe Bridge, GeoSetter, Lightroom) are powerful but expensive, fragmented across operating systems, and have learning curves measured in hours. The free online options either uploaded photos to unknown servers, watermarked the output, or only supported viewing — not editing.
We sat down to design what a properly modern geo tag editor should look like in 2025: a single web page that loads in under a second, lets you drop in any JPEG, edits the EXIF in-browser, and gives you back a clean file. No installs. No accounts. No uploads. That prototype became Geo Tags Editor, and the same principles still drive every release.
Privacy at Geo Tags Editor is not a marketing claim — it's an architectural decision. The editor is a static web page combined with JavaScript. When you upload a photo, the file is read by your browser into local memory using the standard FileReader API. The JavaScript then parses the EXIF block, applies your changes, and reassembles the file, all inside the browser tab. The download you receive is generated locally using a Blob object. There is no upload endpoint to send images to, because the server simply does not have one.
You don't have to take our word for it. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and use the editor — you will not see any image data leaving your device. We also keep the codebase deliberately small and dependency-light precisely so this is easy to verify.
Photos stay on your device. No uploads, no logging, no cloud storage, no tracking pixels embedded in our editor surface.
A clean interface, minimal dependencies, and an editing flow that takes seconds rather than minutes.
No accounts, no subscriptions, no watermarks, no upsells. The tool is free now and stays free.
Our blog explains how EXIF, GPS, and local SEO actually work — without affiliate-link clickbait or AI-generated filler.
Everything we publish on this website is written or reviewed by people with hands-on experience in digital photography, EXIF metadata, and search engine optimization. Articles are sourced from primary documentation (the EXIF specification, OpenStreetMap docs, Google's official Search and Image guidelines) rather than recycled from competing blogs.
When a guide includes a screenshot, a coordinate example, or a step-by-step process, we test it ourselves first. When something changes — a new iOS version, a Google Search update, an EXIF tag deprecation — we update the relevant articles rather than leaving outdated information online. Each blog post carries a publication date and is revised when its content materially changes.
The audience is unusually diverse for a single-purpose tool, which is something we're proud of. Every day people from very different fields rely on the editor:
Search engines now look for first-hand experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trust on every page they rank. We take that seriously, not just as an SEO concept but as a content standard. The team behind Geo Tags Editor has worked directly with EXIF metadata, photo libraries, and local SEO campaigns for years. Every tool we release is something we've used ourselves on real client work, and every guide we publish reflects that hands-on background.
If you ever spot something that looks wrong, outdated, or unclear, please tell us through the contact page. We treat reader corrections as one of the most valuable signals we get.
We're actively expanding both the editor and the surrounding library of guides. Planned additions include support for additional image formats, deeper IPTC and XMP metadata editing, GPX file import for matching photos to a track log, and more multilingual content. If there's a workflow you wish the editor handled, the contact form is the fastest way to put it on our roadmap.
We love hearing from our users. Whether you have a feature request, found a bug, want to suggest a blog topic, or just want to tell us how you're using the tool, please visit our Contact Page. Every message reaches a real person on the team, and we read all of them.